Stats: India vs South Africa 1st T20I - JP Duminy steals the show in the numbers game as well

JP Duminy proved his T20 credentials today with a match-winning knock

Rohit Sharma’s classy 66-ball 106 helped India set South Africa an above par target of 200 but the visitors were able to chase down the score with two balls to spare thanks to a superb knock by JP Duminy who proved his T20 credentials with an unbeaten 34-ball 68.

Here are the most interesting stats to emerge from today’s game.

5 - Instances prior to today when a target of 200 or more was chased down successfully in a T20I game. This was the 6th such instance – first against India and 2nd by South Africa.

199 – India's total in this match is their 4th highest in a T20I game and their highest in a losing cause.

200 – South Africa's total in this game is their 7th 200+ total in a T20I game. It is the joint highest for any team along with Australia. South Africa have won on six such occasions while Australia have ended up winning on five occasions.

0 – Number of times India have lost after scoring 190+ batting first in a T20I game prior to today's game. India has now scored in excess of 190 thrice and lost on only one occasion.

37.45 – JP Duminy’s batting average in his T20I career for South Africa. It is the highest among the top 10 run-getters in T20Is.

68* – Runs scored by JP Duminy in today's game, which is the 5th highest for a South African playing at number 4. Interestingly, Duminy features 4 times in the top 6 scores of South African batsmen playing at number 4.

1498 – Runs scored by JP Duminy in his T20I career. It is the most for any South African player and 2nd most for any player behind McCullum's 2140 and just ahead of Mahela Jayawardene's 1493.

105* – Runs JP Duminy and Behardien put on in this match for the 4th wicket. It is the highest partnership for SA in T20Is, the 2nd highest against India and 2nd highest in India.

9 – Out of top 11 highest 4th partnerships for South Africa feature JP Duminy as a member. No other player has come half-way near to Duminy.

20 – Virat Kohli became the 20^th player in world cricket to reach the milestone of 1000 T20I runs. He is the first Indian batsman to do so.

27 – Innings taken by Virat Kohli to reach 1000 runs in his T20I career. It is the fastest for any player in the world. The record was earlier held jointly by Alex Hales and Kevin Peterson (32 Innings each).

138 – Runs Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma added for the 2nd wicket. It is the highest partnership for any wicket for India in T20Is. The previous record was held by Gambhir and Sehwag when they put on 136 runs vs England back in T20 World Cup 2007. It is also 3rd highest partnership for any wicket against SA and highest for any wicket in India.

3 – Number of times India have put on 100 plus runs for the 2nd wicket in a T20I game. Interestingly, all three belong to the Sharma-Kohli pair. Before the partnership of 138 in this game, Sharma and Kohli had gathered 106 vs WI and 100 vs Bangladesh, both in 2014.

106 – Runs scored by Rohit Sharma in today's game; which is the highest for an Indian batsman in a T20I game surpassing 101 made by Suresh Raina.

8 – Number of fifty plus scores now for Rohit Sharma in T20Is – jointly the 2nd most for any Indian player along with Yuvraj Singh. Only Virat Kohli with 9 such scores is above the two.

0 - Number of instances when a batsman had scored a century in a T20I innings in India before today. The highest score prior to Sharma's century in today's game was McCullum's 91 at Chennai on 11 September 2012.

1 – Number of Indian player before Rohit Sharma to score a T20I century. Suresh Raina scored 101, also against South Africa and coincidentally it was also on the 2nd day of the month (May 2, 2010).

14 – Number of overs from the first 16 overs during which Rohit Sharma played the final ball. In fact, he took 5 singles on the last ball, including in 4 consecutive overs from the 8th to 11th over.

22 – Overs in this match which cost runs in double figures - 11 to each team's name.